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Sad news—Visual Effects Producer Eileen Moran dies in New Zealand. She had been suffering from cancer. May she rest in peace.

Japan’s ninjas heading for extinction

Oh, Sir Patrick Stewart, You’re So Shakespearian and Dignified.

Sir Patrick Stewart on Star Trek: The Next Generation, returning to X-Men, and Wil Wheaton’s beard.

Sir Ian McKellen: Gandalf is more powerful than Magneto.

The Top Five: Forgotten Animated Christmas Specials From The 90’s.

Celebrate Christmas The Geeky Way With These Cute Cards.

Karen Berger Steps Down As Vertigo Executive Editor After Nearly 20 Years.

The Comics Industry Reacts To Vertigo Executive Editor Karen Berger’s Resignation.

Spearhead From Space Remastered In High Definition.

Terminator Returns In Future As Rights Are Settled.

Looking Back At TNG With Director Rob Bowman, Part 1. Part 2.

The History of Green Arrow From Golden Age To Arrow.

Six new clips from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and reactions to 48fps screenings.

Interview: Sylvester McCoy’s twin loves, Radagast, Doctor Who.

Guillermo del Toro to direct haunted house film Crimson Peak.

Merlin: Colin Morgan answers your questions on Doctor Who, plans for the future, and juggling.

Jamie Foxx confirms The Amazing Spider-Man 2 involvement.

Jamie Foxx on Electro’s Origins In The Amazing Spider-Man Sequel.

Ghostbusters + Grease = Ghost Lightning.

P:R Approved: Alejandro Bruzzese’s Doom Patrol

MST3K Episodes That Will Be On Volume XXVI.

Joss Whedon on how The Avengers exposed his angry inner Hulk.

Fantastic Fangirls Q&A #182: What is a television series you are currently enjoying?

South Carolina library pulls Alan Moore’s Neonomicon.

5 Amazing Real-Life Facts About Superman.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Toy Packaging.

The World’s Most Expensive Lego Brick Costs $14,000.

Adam Thompson Tours The DC Universe With The JLA On A Minimalist Poster Series.

Honest Trailers: The Dark Knight Rises.

Alternate Timelines: What If Speilberg Directed Bond And Never Made Indiana Jones?

From Think Geek: Doctor Who 4GB TARDIS Flash Drive.

Nerdist Podcast: Ron Perlman.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 87: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).

Now Playing Podcast: Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987)

BitTorrent Wants To Be Hollywood’s New Best Friend.

MTV Geek’s Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts For The Doctor Who Fan.

Nerdy Gifts For Comic Book Fans.

Radio Times Doctor Who Cover (Christmas 2012).

Jenna-Louise Coleman: Becoming The Companion.

Karen Gillan on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson.

Inside Lost Girl—An Interview with Consulting Producer and Writer Emily Andras.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey TV Spot #9.

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has left the Highlander remake.

Will Gail Simone Leave Batgirl? DC Creative Changes In The Next Few Months.

From Cracked: The 5 Most Hilariously Misguided Comic Book Adaptations.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite In-Theater Sound Effect.

Grace Randolph’s Between The Pages: Mystique.

Zombify Your Christmas Tree Ornaments, Non-Zombie Edition.

New Night of the Demons 2, Monster Squad DVD/Blu-Ray art and details.

Rick Baker Gets A Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

Another ‘If Only’ Sequel Poster from Strange Kids Club—The Bride of Dr. Phibes.

Best Art Ever (This Week)—November 30th.

Awesome Art Picks: Batman, Jean Grey, Optimus Prime and More.

City of Heroes Goes Out With A Roar And A Bang.

Saturday B Movie Reel Podcast #88—American Horror House.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #153: Dinosaur Island (1994).

Terror Transmission, Episode 81: Peeping Tom (1960)

Commentary Track Stars: Aliens of the Deep (2005) Commentary.

Artist Josh Medors has passed away, at the age of 36, following a long battle with spinal cancer. May he rest in peace.

Spain Rodriguez has passed away, at the age of 72, after a long battle with cancer. May he rest in peace.

Six Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan Delayed Until 2013.

Fandom Stocking has moved to Dreamwidth—you can find the Stocking Submission Post here.

This is the only hint as to what the next Rifftrax Live Christmas special will be.

You can watch 2009’s Rifftrax Live: Christmas Shorts-Stravaganza on Hulu.

Neil Gaiman mystery project with Anthony Stewart Head revealed.

Neil Gaiman Penning Pilot Presentation For American Gods.

Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman, Superman: Brainiac Attacks Blu-Rays Announced.

Christopher Nolan Discusses The Open-Ended Nature of The Dark Knight Rises.

Batman Pint Glass Box Set.

Watch This Behind The Scenes Clip Of The Dark Knight’s Bat.

Dark Knight art appears to rip the floor out of an Australian mall.

Scott Snyder On Death Of The Family: It’s A Love Letter To Batman From The Joker.

The Original 1966 Batmobile Going Up For Auction.

P:R Redesign: Ha Huy Hoang’s Batman Collection

DC Nation Animated Short: New Teen Titans—Groundhog Minute.

New Man of Steel Licensing Artwork Revealed.

Hugh Jackman In Talks To Join X-Men: Days of Future Past.

An interview with Jenna-Louise Coleman.

The complete series of In Search Of is on DVD.

The Secret World of Alex Mack Retrospective: Larisa Oleynik And More On The Origins, Hats, And A Remake.

The Great Stephen King Re-Read: The Stand.

Stephen King’s Under The Dome Coming To TV Next Summer.

Secret Identity Crisis: 10 Superheroes In Disguise.

Robot Chicken creates PlayStation All-Stars ad.

USA Today tells how to write a comic book.

Great Moments In Comics: The New Teen Titans #4.

The Line It Is Drawn #117—A Fond Farewell To Hostess. I love the nod to the Super Dictionary.

King Kong is banging on the Spider-Man musical’s door.

6 Filmmaking Tips From Akira Kurosawa.

How It Should Have Ended: Looper. Doc, and the Tenth Doctor pop up, along with a certain other creature from the latter series.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Batman in the Justice League Movie (Parody from It’s Just Some Random Guy)

The Cinefiles—Digital vs. Film.

Disney names Jennifer Lee co-director of Frozen.

The Hobbit Re-Read: Chapter 3, ‘A Short Rest.’

Clive Barker Relaunches Hellraiser Comics With The Dark Watch.

9+ Cartoons, TV Shows and Movies That Infuriatingly Aren’t On DVD Yet.

Curiosity finds Daleks on Mars.

Disney In Depth: 20 Aladdin Fun Facts You May Not Have Known.

Alan Rickman joins StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Junk Food Dinner #137: Transformers: The Movie (1986) Audio Commentary.

Weinberg’s House of Horrors Episode 12: The Best and Worst Horror Films of 2012.

JoBlo Movie Podcast: They Live Commentary.

Mission Log Podcast #17: Episode 17—The Squire of Gothos.

Dinah Sheridan has passed away, at the age of 92. May she rest in peace. Doctor Who fans will remember her best as Chancellor Flavia in The Five Doctors.

How Larry Hagman’s death impacts Dallas.

Noel Neill (the original Lois Lane) turns 92.

The Comics Reporter's Holiday Shopping Guide 2012

Batman: The Animated Series Rewatch: See No Evil and Prophecy of Doom.

Remembering: Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988)

The next movie for Svengoolie is House of Frankenstein.

Shows that fell off a cliff.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked—Super Quick Alpha Flight Turnaround.

Drawing Crazy Patterns—The Watcher Interfering Despite Insisting He Can’t Interfere.

From Cracked: 6 Pathetic Attempts By Corporations To Create A Superhero.

The Grooviest Covers Of All Time: Dave Cockrum Covers The X-Men.

Revival: Dark Shadows, Episode 12.

Commentary Track Stars Podcast: Death Proof (2007)

The trailer for the Doctor Who Christmas Special. Killer snowmen just makes me think of Jack Frost.

Christmas Special: BBC America Press Release.

Doctor Who Extra: 5 Thoughts About This Year’s Children In Need Minisode.

ABC cancels 666 Park Avenue and Last Resort.

Friday With Kim Newman and the Lord of the Undead

Arrow casts Janina Gavankar.

The seventh TV spot for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Hitchcock Movie Clip #4.

All The Best Shows Were Cancelled Despite Being Awesome.

Gotham City High Is Batman’s Worst Nightmare.

Awesome Art Picks: Skeletor, Batman, Wolverine and More.

New Package Artwork For Young Justice: Invasion—Destiny Calling DVD Release.

From Cracked: The 6 Most Brutal Murders Committed By Batman.

Head Back To 1984 When The News Reported On A Haunted Toaster.

Scripts Revealed For Scrapped Star Trek Final Frontier Animated Series.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Brushes With (semi-) Greatness.

Earth Station Who, Episode 22: The Doctor Who Movie (1996).

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #151: The Eden Formula (2006).

Schlock Treatment 101: MacGyver.

Adobe breach reportedly spills easy-to-crack password hashes.

You Have My Permission To Dine. Awkward, but Alfred looks strangely happy back there.

This Wooden Door Looks Just Like Batman.

The Joker Snuggie.

Greg Capullo on how nail-bitingly intense things are going to get in "Death of the Family"

First Look: Seven of Nine Statue From Diamond Select.

Nine Minutes of Star Trek: Into Darkness Hits IMAX Theaters December 14th. It will be played before showings of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

For Your Consideration…The Hobbit.

The Hobbit Reread: Chapter 1, ‘An Unexpected Party.’

Now We Know When Godzilla Starts Shooting…

Bob Gale provides fans with an exclusive peak into the DeLorean Time Machine Restoration.

Press release for The New Ghostbusters.

Interview: Lesley Ann Warren on the 30th anniversary of Victor Victoria and the upcoming Clue mini-reunion.

SJA And Moffat Win At Writers’ Guild Awards.

Alex Kingston Reads The Angel’s Kiss By Melody Malone.

The Great Stephen King Re-read: Night Shift

Director Kimberly Peirce On The New Ending Of Carrie.

From Cracked: 6 Insane Superstitions That Are Still Shockingly Influential.

To sequel or not to sequel, that is the question: Big Trouble In Little China

Five Horror Movies Where I Was ‘Late To The Party’. For my own list, probably Fright Night, Halloween, Night of the Creeps, An American Werewolf In London, and a few others.

Random Roles: Richard Benjamin on Peter O’Toole, celebrity treasure hunts, and Woody Allen. He actually talks about Saturday the 14th.

The Line It Is Drawn #115—Comic Book Characters and James Bond.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 320: JLA #72.

American Horror Story renewed for third season.

Eddie Izzard To Guest Star On Hannibal.

From Think Geek: Doctor Who Vortex Manipulator.

Hey Kids Comics, Season 1, Episode 18: Blackest Night 2.

Terror Transmission, Episode 80: Psycho (1960)

Mission Log #15: Episode 15—Shore Leave.

Nestle recalls Nesquik chocolate mix because of salmonella risk

Sony Entertainment Head Steps Down

5 Dracula Spoofs To Celebrate Bram Stoker’s Birthday.

Here’s the official trailer for World War Z.

The international trailer for Hitchcock.

Trailers From Hell: John Landis on Panic In The Streets.

Secrets Behind The X-Men: Cosmic comedy with Excalibur, but the Phoenix mini-series didn't make it to print, Colossus didn't make the team, and Nightcrawler's Captains Courageous team wasn't assembled.

Best Art Ever (This Week): November 9th.

Tokypop: Cosplay Friday #4. My favorite is the person dressed as Adam West Batman, complete with bomb.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—Aunt May…Herald of Galactus?!

Every fan needs a copy of Making Ghostbusters.

10 Classic Logos Re-Imagined For The Zombie Apocalypse.

The zombie version of the Mile High Comics Woodchuck logo.

25 Things We Learned From The Rocky Horror Picture Show Commentary.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #392.

Beauty and the Beast gets full season.

Syfy Renews Haven For Season 4.

Spielberg, Tarantino And Zack Snyder All Say No To Star Wars.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 273: Twin Peaks.

Movie Issues Podcast: Sixteen Candles (1984)

Retroist Podcast—Episode 123: Too Close For Comfort.

On the Yuletide front, I’ve been writing chunks of the fanfic I was assigned. I’m going to get started on piecing things together, starting this weekend. From there, I’ll see if it’s long enough and work on that. The series I’m writing for is completely and utterly insane, which helps.

Fandom Aid seeks to help raise money for survivors of Hurricane Sandy with an auction.

Both Paid and Permanent Accounts will be cancelled by Livejournal. If the latter has already been purchased, they will not be lost.

Holiday Wishes 2012 is coming.

Top 10 Yuletide fanfic requests.

The Bat Family Christmas Exchange.

31 Days of Horror: Halloween / Halloween II / Halloween III: Season of the Witch.

The Line It Is Drawn #113—Happy Halloween

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #2-1.

There was a Twitter account dedicated to tracking the progress of Michael Meyers as he slaughtered his way through Haddonfield, Illinois last night. And one for Dr. Sam Loomis as he tracks him. They only dealt with the first two movies.

Dracula vs. Frankenstein vs. reality: 13 horror posters scarier than their movies.

Is Horror Too Scary For Broadcast TV?

13 Ghosts of Halloween: Day 13.

The haunted building from Ghostbusters is for sale, for all your Gozer-worshipping needs. The asking price is…$35 million.

The Desk Where Bram Stoker Created Dracula Is Hitting The Auction Block.

X-Men animation cells to be auctioned online December 1st.

The Great Stephen King Reread: The Shining.

Your First Good Look At The Necronomicon From The Evil Dead Remake.

Silvestri and Hawkins On Two Decades of Top Cow, Part 2.

P:R Approved: Luc Latulippe’s Firestar.

Kia Motors unveils four Justice League inspired cars.

Andrew Dunbar will play Firefly on Arrow.

Exhibit looks at comic book censorship.

24 Things We Learned From The Frankenstein Commentary.

Evil Dead Cabin Hat.

Francis Lawrence To Direct The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2.

George Lucas Will Donate Most of the 4.05 Billion From Star Wars Deal.

MPAA Officially Passes PG-13 Rating For Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part Two.

The Ed Brubaker Captain America Exit Interview.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 272: The 5th Anniversary.

The JV Club #35: Amy Acker.

Weinberg’s House of Horrors, Episode 10: Love For Lovecraft.

We didn’t get a single trick-or-treater last night, pretty much as I expected. They were doing half a dozen Trunk-or-Treats at various churches, had a roped off section downtown for safe trick-or-treating, and a fall festival at another church. Also, a traffic jam near my area, thanks to K-Mart (a few blocks from me) hosting a Safe Halloween, and passing out candy there.

My thoughts go out to everyone being affected by Hurricane Sandy. Everyone still dealing with it and the aftermath of it on my friends list, please do whatever you can to try to stay safe.

Hurricane Sandy Topples New York Data Center, Gawker, Gizmodo. Io9 was hosted there as well.

The altered Livejournal friends page is now in beta testing. To say nobody is happy with this development would be an understatement.

Insanejournal has a problem with delayed notifications right now (and graphic porn in their ads, which Squeaky is working on correcting).

31 Days of Horror: Trick ‘r Treat / Terror Train / The Funhouse.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.

Ain’t It Scary Reviews #30 of 31: Dario Argento’s Deep Red.

Longbox of the Damned: Blackest Night.

Rare Halloween Videos: 1982: Trick Or Treats.

10 Childhood Halloween Specials No Longer On TV.

This Year’s Halloween Discovery: Grave of the Vampire.

You Don’t Know Poe: 10 Weird Things About Edgar Allan Poe.

When the TV stars of 1979 saved Halloween with a little kitsch.

13 Ghosts of Halloween: Day 11.

Real Ghostbusters art from Kizer Stone.

Props from Ghostbusters Universal Studios Spooktacular Show now on eBay.

Comic Con to stay in San Diego through 2016.

The Wolverine to be released in 3D.

The first official poster for The Wolverine.

P:R Approved: Alex Mitchell’s Jidaigeki X-Men.

Phil Jimenez Jumps From Fairy Tales To Scary Tales.

Top 5 DC Villains Without Powers (Who Aren’t The Joker or Lex Luthor).

Frank Grillo to play Crossbones in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Tales From The Code: Whatever Happened To The Amazing Amazon—Wonder Woman Bound By Censorship.

The entirety of Mockingbird Lane can be viewed on NBC’s website.

Scandal and The Neighbors Receive Full Seasons From ABC.

Save the bridge! A behind the scenes look at the project to restore the Enterprise D bridge.

Author L.J. Smith on writing and losing the Vampire Diaries series.

The Teaser Poster For Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters.

Monkeybrain Comics donating November profits to Hero Initiative.

Fantastic Fangirls Q&A #177: It’s Halloween! Which comics character do you want to celebrate with?

Doctor Who News: BBC Announces A Host of Books For 2013.

8 Surprising Details About The Hellish Production Of The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

New Community Starts On November 9th…In Canada.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 82: Bless The Child (2000)

The Two True Freaks Podcast’s Halloween Special: The Haunted Mansion

I finally managed to locate season 1 (season 2 is easily found on the WB’s website) of Pushing Daisies, and rewatched large chunks to refresh my memory. So I can place the series back into my fandom offerings for Yuletide.

So after the last of the reshuffling, the fandoms I’m offering (unless I trade out The Mummy for Indiana Jones again) are: Fright Night (1985), Back to the Future, The Mummy series, Ghostbusters, Pushing Daisies, Addams Family (1991). And the Bucket List includes: Van Helsing (2004), Mockingbird Lane, Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Anno Dracula Series—Kim Newman, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1996, A Study In Emerald—Neil Gaiman, Mannequin, Soapdish (1991), Addams Family (tv 1964).

Just received word from Donna that we’ve hit the end of the road with Nellie and her pancreatic cancer. She’s in the hospital now, having refused hospice at home. Hospice is apparently (didn’t realize they did that in the hospital) just across the hall from her current room in the hospital, so they plan to move her over there.

Finally heard from Phillip (Mom’s brother)—where he’s at, Sandy didn’t dump too much. He’s currently just outside the zone where it would be, so he only received high winds. Meanwhile, all family in Louisiana are fine as of the last anyone heard, since it didn’t go there.

Inquest Held Into Death of Mary Tamm’s Widower.

Livejournal is changing (the alterations are currently in beta testing) the style for all friends lists so that it reflects the new style for the comment and update pages. I’ve also been reading that their U.S. offices were shut down.

Spook Me Master List 2012.

Happy Birthday To Matt Smith.

Children In Need line-up announced.

Rifftrax Live: Birdemic—How Did You Like The Show? There were 15 people at the theater I was—well, 14, really, since someone jumped over and across seats and bolted from the room as it started. He was supposed to be in the room next door, showing Halloween at the same time, from what I gathered. It was a good Rifftrax, went off without any technical difficulties. As I was leaving, I heard from behind me someone was muttering over and over: "I...didn't know movies could be that bad. I-I didn't know...I didn't know..." Their friend consoled them. Upon my telling him there’s a sequel, Dad started laughing hysterically in the car. The short with Norman was hysterical.

31 Days of Horror: Night of the Living Dead/Dawn of the Dead.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Gremlins.

Ain’t It Scary Reviews #26: The Creature From The Black Lagoon.

Longbox of the Damned: Jack Davis’ Tales From The Crypt.

Trailers From Hell: Adam Rifkin on The Shining.

MTV Geek’s Frightful Faves: Friday The 13th Part 2.

Rare Halloween Videos: 1988: Fun House.

10 Long Lost Horror Products.

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark Comics Return In 2013.

Beetlejuice: A Ghostly, Gothed-Out 80’s Fairy Tale For The Ages.

Behind The Scenes Pic Of The Day: Peter Cushing.

6 Things You Don’t Remember About The Real Ghostbusters Cartoon.

IDW Mars Attacks The Real Ghostbusters Comic Solicitation.

Mattel Ghostbusters Courtroom Battle Ray Stantz Figure Review By Pixel Dan.

13 Ghosts of Halloween: Day 7.

AV Q&A: Scariest reading experiences.

Listen to an excerpt from R.L. Stine’s new adult horror novel Red Rain.

Matthew Vaughn Out As X-Men: Days of Future Past Director; Bryan Singer Could Take Over.

Lethal Ladies: The 10 Best Female Supervillains.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #25-21.

Mike Mitchell re-skins Superman #6 with disturbing results.

The Line It Is Drawn #112—Marvel Family Tribute.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #390.

P:R Approved: Kevin Wada’s Elektra

8 Photos From NBC’s Upcoming Hannibal.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Return as Conan the Barbarian.

Check This Out: Weta Installs Gigantic Gollum At Wellington Airport.

Wonderful Jack Skellington Cake.

The Eye of Sauron Cake.

Spectacular Beauty and the Beast Cake.

The Myth Of ‘So Bad It’s Good.’

Starlog Magazine: Crazy Movie Rumors Before The Internet.

That One Time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Punked Houdini With Dinosaurs.

Looking back at Carnivale.

Ask Chris #126: Who Will Survive And What Will Be Left Of Them?

The AV Club reviews Mockingbird Lane. FearNet’s review of Mockingbird Lane. And here’s Shock Til You Drop’s review.

Top 10 Movie Psychics.

The 55 Scariest Moments From Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies.

An Alternate Poster For Iron Man 3.

Next Two Bond Films To Comprise Two Movie Arc, Both Written By John Logan.

G4 Cancels Attack of the Show And X-Play.

Sofa Dogs Podcast #260: Prince of Darkness (1987).

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #148: Invitation to Hell (1984).

Barnes & Noble Stores Have Credit Card Data Breach.

TV Tango updates their list for Halloween On TV: 915 Halloween-Themed Movie Marathons, Episodes & Specials on TV in October 2012.

Halloween: John Carpenter classic returns for theatrical run.

Ginger Snaps Helmer Directing Orphan Black For BBC America.

Know Thy History: Tales From The Crypt.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Inhumanoids.

Longbox of the Damned: Saga of the Swamp Thing, Volume 1.

Ain’t It Scary Reviews #24: Tucker and Dale vs. Evil.

Geek Gear: Nightmare In Pumpkin Land Shirt.

Io9 Halloween Costume Show Week 3: Sexy Donatello, Retro Kitty Pryde, and Serious Comic Book Cred.

Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on I Bury The Living.

13 Ghosts of Halloween: Day 5.

Rare Halloween Videos: 1977: Donny and Marie Osmond’s Halloween Skits.

Unsuspecting UK kids terrorized by Paranormal Activity 4.

Here’s the teaser trailer for Ghostwatch: Behind The Curtains.

New TV Trailer For The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Hobbit Running Time Revealed.

Grace Randolph’s Between The Pages—Comics To Film: The Joker.

Batman: Nightwing short.

Dinner With DC Entertainment’s Jim Lee and Dan DiDio.

Captain America, Batman, Superman and Spidey adorably storm a children’s hospital.

P:R Approved: Ronnie del Carmen’s Magik.

Secrets Behind The X-Men: The all-different X-Men went to Australia and encountered some unresolved mysteries, as well as some unpublished adventures of Longshot.

From Cracked: 5 Famous Monsters That Are Way Scarier In Other Countries.

Alan Tudyk and Gina Torres Q&A at Dallas Comic Con Fan Days. Gina Torres also sang while there.

Lost Girl—New York Comic Con 2012 Panel.

Lo Pan Style.

Cocktails With Stan Lee, Bonus Extended Cut: Joe Manganiello.

The Fury of a Time Lord.

10 Wibbly Wobbly Ways Doctor Who Plays With Space/Time.

Learn all about your body with Slim Goodbody. He was on local channels in reruns up through my middle school years.

Evil Fake Wine Bottle Labels.

Earth Station One Podcast, Episode 133: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Revisited

Geekfest Rants Episode 111: Battlestar Galactica.

Now Playing Podcast: The Living Daylights (1987)

The Forgotten Flix Podcast #84: Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)

Junk Food Dinner Podcast #132: The Howling (1981), An American Werewolf In Paris (1997), and Silver Bullet (1985).

For Yuletide, I just did a massive overhaul of my sign-up. I realized that it had been too long since I watched Pushing Daisies, and if I didn’t remember major character moments and/or little quirks I couldn’t possibly do them justice if that were my assignment. So I removed that, and replaced it with Fright Night (2011). I’m fine with writing any character for Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), so I moved that to the Bucket List section, and replaced that slot with Justice League Unlimited.

So as of now, my offers look like this: Fright Night (1985), Back to the Future, Fright Night (2011), Ghostbusters, Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoons), Addams Family (1991). Bucket List: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Anno Dracula Series - Kim Newman, Beetle Juice (1988), Van Helsing (2004), Mannequin (1987), A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman, Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2004), Soapdish (1991), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1996.

If I watch Mockingbird Lane and enjoy it, I’ll throw that into the pile, too.

Posting this a bit early now, before I head out for a double bill showing of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein at the local Cinemark. That’s about three hours, I do believe. Tomorrow night is Rifftrax Live.

Yuletide: Selecting Characters During Sign-Up. Meanwhile, I'm on the brink of adding Beetlejuice and Real Ghostbusters to the offer pile. I'll decide for certain later.

The upcoming schedule for the 2013 round of the Not Prime Time Ficathon.

AMC settles Dish dispute.

Six-Strikes ‘Independent Expert’ Is RIAA’s Former Lobbying Firm.

Marie Wallace injured in Connecticut stage production. Best wishes to her on a speedy recovery.

Dark Shadows: Movie Visual Companion Preview Pictures.

Horror Education of the Week: Poltergeist.

Official Artwork and Synopsis: Mockingbird Lane.

Grandpa Munster Gets Gory In One Of Two New Mockingbird Lane Photos.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Hellraiser.

Longbox of the Damned: The New Teen Titans #12.

Rare Halloween Videos: 1985: The Fall Guy—October The 32nd.

Warner Bros. Now Owns Paramount’s Friday The 13th Library.

5 Horror Movies With Amazing Endings.

13 Ghosts of Halloween: Day 3.

Top 10 Scary Places In 80’s Horror Movies.

Monster In My Pocket Trading Cards Review—Part 1.

Give A Book For All Hallow’s Read 2012.

Trailers From Hell: John Landis on Island of Lost Souls.

Good Bad Flicks Review: Night of the Comet (1984)

Sofie Liv reviews Dracula (1931).

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #45-41.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #40-36.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #35-31.

The 10 Greatest Giant Movie Monsters Of All Time.

Science In Our Comics.

16 ways cartoonist Winsor McCay quietly changed the world.

Superman on TV: October 22-28.

Star Trek captains boldly go to London convention. This all apparently culminated in Barrowman leaping forward with the request that Scott Bakula sign his right buttock, quite possibly to the surprise of absolutely nobody.

Pocket Paradox’s Flux Capacitor app free until October 25th, 2012.

11 Predictions That Back To The Future II Got Right.

The Cinefiles—Batman Part 2: The Nolan Years.

Producer Eric Radomski Discusses Twenty Years Of Batman: The Animated Series.

Take A Vacation From Gotham City Crime In The Batman Hotel Room.

The AV Club reviews the Justice League episode Starcrossed.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Spider-Man: Power And Responsibility.

Excellent high-voltage warning glyph.

Saint Paul couple opens the Library of Justice.

Live The Wolverine Chat with Mangold and Jackman on October 29th.

Colbert’s Hobbit Cameo Confirmed.

Comics Alliance Reviews BloodRayne (2005), Part One.

From Tor: Ghosts In the Machines, written by Neil Gaiman.

Arrow Gets Full Season From The CW.

Beauty and the Beast gets order for more…scripts.

First Image of Iron Man 3’s New Villain, The Mandarin.

Iron Man 3 gets another trailer teaser.

Star Wars made entirely out of scarecrows wins best Halloween lawn on this Earth.

M.O.D.O.K. marionette is every bit as terrifying as you imagine.

The Avengers Earns Another $33.3 Million From Home Video Sales.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week)—October 22nd.

Please explain Babylon 5 to us.

Blade Runner—30th Anniversary DVD Clip.

Movie Issues Podcast: The Universal Monsters.

Two True Freaks Podcast, Commentary Monthly Monday: Episode 294: Poltergeist (1982)

Film Sack Podcast, Episode 136: Children of the Corn (1984)

Tysto Commentary Podcast: They Live (1988) Commentary

Nerdist Podcast: NY Comic Con.

TV Tango updates their list for Halloween on TV: 635 Halloween-Themed Movie Marathons, Episodes & Specials on TV in October 2012.

MTV Geek’s Frightful Faves: Two Anthology Greats—Creepshow (1982) and 'Trick R Treat' (2007).

31 Days of Horror: Hellraiser/Candyman.

Rare Halloween Videos: Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies (1972).

Halloween Costume Extravaganza 2012: The Bad.

Kindertrauma takes a look at Halloween (1978)

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness: Spookies (1986)

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Critters.

Longbox of the Damned: Wrath of the Spectre.

Ain’t It Scary Reviews #19: The Keep (1983).

5 Secrets of “True” Horror Stories.

John Carpenter honored at Screamfest for Prince of Darkness

Secrets Behind The X-Men: The all-different X-Men went to Australia and encountered some unresolved mysteries, as well as some unpublished adventures of Longshot.

AV Club Q&A: Awkward pop-culture experiences with parents.

Carry Your Kindle, Nook, iPad in a Book Purse.

Warner Bros. Brings Justice League To Theaters In 2015.

The big crossover movies that never happened.

Cartoon Network Canada To Air First Season Young Justice Episodes In November 2012.

5.2 Reasons Superman Is A Threat.

Two Missing Pages From Alan Davis’ Legends of the Dark Knight.

Brendan Fraser Cast In Legends. The plot of the series sounds just like The Pretender.

What TV shows are you watching to take your mind off the election? For me, nothing. Since it’s October, I’m watching horror movies. I dropped Merlin, Doctor Who is done for a little while, and Sherlock won’t be back for some time.

Ward Kimball Biography Delayed Until 2013.

An eyewitness to President Lincoln’s assassination appeared on television in 1956.

Journey Into History: 10 Books on History of Comics.

Top 10 Sci-Fi And Fantasy Sidekicks.

What It Would Be Like If H.P. Lovecraft Wrote Fantastic Four.

Best Art Ever (This Week)—October 19th.

New DC Comics Art Prints.

Real Ghostbusters Halloween Fan Art.

There is a Family Circus movie in the works.

Bruce Campbell tells us why the Evil Dead remake won’t make you want to saw off your hand.

New York vs. San Diego: A Comic Con Throwdown.

Best Zombie Themed Wedding Photo You’ll See All Day.

28 Things We Learned From The Blair Witch 2 Commentary.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #389

Now Playing Podcast: Trick 'R' Treat (2007)

Pool Party Radio Podcast, Episode 81: The Munsters

Retroist Podcast—Episode 121: The Retroist Halloween Special IV.

Marcus Swayze has passed away, at the age of 99. May he rest in peace. He may be best known for drawing the character of Captain Marvel for Fawcett Comics in the early 1940’s, as well as creating Mary Marvel alongside Otto Binder.

Yuletide sign-ups are now open. About Optional Details. You can find a summary of sign-up offers and requests here. Sign-ups will remain open until October 28th. I know exactly what to request, I just need to whittle down what I’m offering. For example—removing The Shadow upon seeing a couple Dear Yuletide letters, since I’ve only seen the film, and not the radio show, serial or comics. I need to find out if Dark Shadows (60’s version—since I know the 90’s version is on Youtube, but it wasn’t nominated), Pushing Daisies, and Real Ghostbusters are available online for viewing, so I can brush up on canon—been a while since I watched those.

TV Tango updates their list for Halloween on TV: 355 Halloween-Themed Movie Marathons, Episodes & Specials On TV In October 2012.

31 Days of Horror: The Evil Dead/Re-Animator.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Troll Trilogy.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness: Making Contact (1985)

Longbox of the Damned: Eerie #1.

Rare Halloween Videos: Disney’s Quack Pack—House Of Haunts (1997)

Horror Education of the Week: Prometheus.

First Look At Mondo’s New Poster For Karloff’s The Mummy.

Monster Mash: horrific composite of Universal Monsters’ Big Four.

10 of the Grossest and Most Grotesque Vampires From Folklore.

23 Reasons Why Hocus Pocus Is The Best Halloween Movie Of All Time.

How All Family Films Grow Up To Be Horror Movies.

Hannibal Casts Gina Torres. Whedonesque reacts to the news here.

Best New York Comic Con Cosplay Ever.

Jonathan Nolan talks The Dark Knight Rises ending.

NYCC: David Goyer, Geoff Johns To Pen 13-Issue Event For DC Comics.

NYCC 2012: DC Comics—Batman—Death Comes To Gotham panel recap.

NYCC: Deadpool Adds Another X-Men Alumn To His Game.

15th Anniversary Buffy Panel At NYCC 2012.

The Evil Dead Panel at NYCC 2012.

The Carrie Panel at NYCC 2012.

Best New York Comic Con 2012 Cosplay Ever—Sunday.

Superman on TV: October 15-21.

George A. Romero Working On A Zombie Comic For Marvel.

Google Creates Homage To Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo In Slumberland.

How Marvel created the modern blockbuster.

Ant Man Gets Release Date, Thor 2 and Iron Man 3 Get 3D.

The Arrow Sizzle Reel From New York Comic Con.

Comics Alliance Reviews Arrow: Pilot (2012)

Comics, Everybody: The History of Hawkeye.

Brannon Braga Talks Hive, TNG, Cosmos, And More, Part 1. Part 2.

Jar Jar Binks attains sainthood in deranged Star Wars religious art.

Don’t Get These Gremlins Pumpkin Carvings Wet.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked—Where Did Cyclops’ Ruby Quartz Glasses Come From?

A press release describing the plot of Mockingbird Lane.

The Cinefiles—Batman Part 1: The Burton/Schumacher Years.

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast: Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn (1987)

Film Bin Commentaries Podcast: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)

Tysto Commentaries: The Invisible Man (1933)

Yuletide Update and Clarifications, Part II.

Copyright Scofflaws Beware: ISPs to Begin Monitoring Illicit File Sharing.

The Quiet Death of the Canadian Internet Surveillance Bill.

Court rules book scanning is fair use, suggesting Google Books victory.

TV Tango has updated their list to Halloween On TV: 269 Halloween-Themed Movie Marathons, Episodes & Specials on TV In October 2012.

31 Days of Horror: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre/House of 1000 Corpses.

31 Days of Horror: The Fog/The Mist.

MTV Geek’s Frightful Faves: The Gate (1987)

Rare Halloween Videos: Grampa Munster’s Silly Scaries (1988), More Silly Scaries (1989).

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness: 80’s Rerun: Poltergeist

NBC To Air Mockingbird Lane As A Halloween Special. I’ll have to remember to watch that one.

The Best Horror Movies To Watch On Youtube For Free.

10 Thrift Store Friendly Comic Book Halloween Costume Ideas.

The Wolverine: First Glimpse of Silver Samurai.

Comixology adding a submission site.

The official trailer for Hitchcock.

How Red Dwarf blends sitcom with sci-fi in just 10 smegging episodes.

Expectation of Endings.

Storylines Lost.

Artist Kris Anka and Writer Sam Humphries On Uncanny X-Force Fashions.

500+ 90’s X-Men Animation Cels Hit The Auction Block December 1st.

How Grant Morrison’s 7-Year Batman Epic Is Becoming The Ultimate Definition of Batman.

Molly Shannon joins the cast of Hannibal.

Shailene Woodley In Talks To Play Mary Jane Watson In The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels To Cheer You The Frak Up.

10 ‘Grim and Gritty’ Superhero Makeovers.

Walter Koenig interview: Star Trek, Babylon 5, J.J. Abrams’ reboot, and graphic novels.

Captain Robert April, You’re Doing It Wrong: Objectivism, Climate Control and Diane Carey’s Final Frontier.

Ian McShane joins American Horror Story: Asylum.

Bryan Hitch Confirms Existence of Scott Snyder’s Man of Steel.

This Batcave made of 20,000 Lego bricks is fit for Bruce Wayne.

Nightwing Cosplay.

NYCC 2012: Jim Lee Unveils A Batman Inspired Car.

Robot Chicken: That’s Bane.

Robot Chicken: Two-Face.

The Strangest Real-Life Graves In The World.

The Weird, Weird History Of TLC.

Do You Listen To DVD Commentaries?

Scott Allie and artist Juan Ferreyra collaborated on a drawing of Hellboy hanging out with Edgar Allan Poe at a bar.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #90-86.

How It Should Have Ended: The Zombie Song (Extended Version).

Dynamite Acquires License For NBC’s Grimm.

Dan Slott Reveals That Spider-Man And Mary Jane Will Get Back Together - But Peter Parker Is NOT Spider-Man.

Alien Queen Barbie Mash-up.

Spooky Delicious Pizza.

Horror Poster Redux: Mondo’s Beautiful Take on John Carpenter’s Halloween.

Tales From The Crypt Pinball Machine.

The Line It Is Drawn #110—Comic Book Characters, Batman: The Animated Series Style.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 285: X-Men Annual #6.

The New Evil Dead Logo Springs Forth.

‘New’ JRR Tolkien epic due out next year.

Arrow Lifts CW Ratings, Most Viewed Show On The Network In Three Years.

30 Dynamic Duos of Daytime Soaps (25-21). Barnabas and Julia (from Dark Shadows), and Vivian and Ivan (from Days of Our Lives) make the list.

How Tor Would Cast A Live Action Peanuts Movie.

Comic Issues Podcast #87: A Few of the Geekiest Things Part 2.

Dr. Action Podcast: Masters of the Universe (1987) Commentary.

The F This Movie Podcast: Friday The 13th Part 3 (1982) Commentary.

Junk Food Dinner Podcast #130: Gothic (1986), Frankenstein Conquers The World (1965), and Frankenhooker (1990).

Mission Log Podcast #10: Episode 10: Dagger of the Mind.